【摘要】本研究的主要目的是從遠近原則、同情感受與同情行為等方面對兒童同情心的特點進行分析。通過自編的12個與同情心有關的題目，對102名小學生進行了問卷調查。結果表明：兒童同情感受的程度、激發同情行為的可能性高低受與他人的遠近關系影響，但是兒童的感情會更多的放在那些可愛、友好的動物上；兒童對他人的同情感受與同情行為無差異；大多數兒童認為動物的遭遇十分值得同情，但是如果要真的讓他們做出實際的同情行為，他們中的一部分就會做出與自己情感相違背的行為；

【關鍵詞】同情心；遠近關系；兒童

Abstract：The mayor purpose of this research is to analyze the features of children’s sympathy from distance principle, sympathy experiencing and sympathy behavior. A questionnaire survey that made up by 12 questions related to sympathy was conducted among 102 pupils. The results showed that sympathy experience and sympathy behavior was affected by the distance principle, but children paid more attention to the lovely and friendly animals. There was no difference between sympathy experiencing and sympathy behaviors of children. Most of children considered that the experience of animals was worthy of sympathy, but if they were in a really situation, they might behave contrast to their feelings. In different situation, Children’s sympathy behavior was different.

Key words: sympathy; distance principle; children